David Grinspoon Quotes
There's no question to my mind that saving our civilization and many other species is more important than our ability to do ground-based astronomy for a few decades.
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I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
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I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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Ether is the token of the Ethereum network, which is focused on disrupting contract law.
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With the mega – fame came the mega – downfall – you know, with the press and everything – and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.
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I'm really just a normal person.
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I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.
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For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anything if you put your mind to it. What he stood for formed the core of who I wanted to be as I grew up, and informed how I view the world and my responsibilities to other people.
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A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
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The Web provides a very easy way to immediately grasp what's going on. It really offers the transparency, so you can see, especially with the search engine, how people are using Twitter at one glance. The phone doesn't allow for that.
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I mean I like most of the films that I've seen that I've been in.
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My wife has been my closest friend, my closest advisor. And ... she's not somebody who looks to the limelight, or even is wild about me being in politics. And that's a good reality check on me. When I go home, she wants me to be a good father and a good husband. And everything else is secondary to that.
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People think I'm unusual but it's just that we haven't had anyone like this since the Seventies.
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I started practicing Yoga at about 18. I had a friend who was doing it and was incredibly disciplined and meditated all the time.
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There's no question to my mind that saving our civilization and many other species is more important than our ability to do ground-based astronomy for a few decades.
